Letter from C C Linear, War Office.

Photocopy of two pages of poems headed Poems of 1912-3, entitled "The Going" and "Your Last Drive", from the collected poems of Thomas Hardy.

Each volume contains minutes giving the date of meetings, attendance, correspondence and business transacted. Initially the Board of The Galway Town Commissioners met on a weekly basis, during in later periods it met less frequently. Earlier volumes contain lined pages, later volumes contain indexes and pre-formatted pages. The collection also contains two volumes of drafts of minutes. The volume or volumes covering the period May 1853-September 1862 is missing, according to a list which accompanied the initial deposit it was never deposited at the library. The vast majority of the information contained in the minute books relates to the day to day provision of the services which the Board was responsible for including the collection of tolls, the watch and the maintenance of roads and footpaths. The minute books also contain references to wider social and political events such as The Great Famine and The Land War. The pages of the volumes in this collection are in good physical condition, the covers of some of the volumes are very worn.

Three of the four volumes contain minutes giving the date of meetings, attendance, correspondence and business transacted. The first volume also contains the minutes of the Galway Town Commissioners for the period 6 November 1890 - 31 December 1898, although this is one physical item it can be considered as two items for the purposes of description and arrangement. One of the items in this collection LA4/4 is a letter book which contains copies of correspondence and other items such as reports and for the period 4 May 1922 - 20 December 1922 it includes the copies of the minutes of council meetings. There are no minutes for the period 12 October 1912 - 16 December 1916, however there are some copies of letters for this period.

The volumes in this collection are in good physical condition.

The minutes of the Galway Urban Sanitary Authority list the date of each meeting, the attendance, Reports of Committees, record of sanitary work performed, correspondence and special business. Meeting typically took place at monthly intervals, the vast majority of the Authority's business concerned the provision of running water, sewers and inspection of houses or buildings.

Handwritten draft of two chapters in "Memoir", one writing about the summers, the other beginning "I went to two [ ] national schools, all small, all in fields along the road, with little porches …"

Holograph letter from Willie Ryan, Ballymackeogh, County Tipperary, to Mr. Lucas, informing him that he gave the literature concerning Antoinette Jane Ryan to the successors of solicitor Mr. Fitt, in Limerick city. Enclosing history of the Ryan family which will be of interest to him: reverse lists direct descendants of Edward III (1312-1377) the last of whom, Anne Pennefather, married William Ryan, Ballymackeogh. [It is likely that other documents were enclosed, the list being given in complementation.]

The material consists of legal documents, scripts and some production material relating to the work of John Huston, as well as some material relating to other members of his family. The bulk of the material relates to the production of his film The Dead , an adaptation of James Joyce's short story to film. There is also some material relating to his grandmother Adelia, his mother Rhea and his son Tony. There are 13 boxes of material, in a variety of formats including some artefacts. The collection is in good physical condition.

Typescript with handwritten amendments of an article by John McGahern beginning "I think that the 1916 Rising was not considered to be of any great importance in the country I grew up in".

Two typescript copies, one with handwritten amendments, of a piece beginning "I was born into Catholicism as I might have been born into Buddism or Protestantism or any of the other isms or sects …"